Issue 27
We’re back after a week off the grid. This week we look at how Obama is preparing for the future of AI, how AI assistants are adding the “smart” to smartphones, check in on self-driving cars and other emergent transportation tech, and we take a mulligan on Notes from the Frontier this week — Sorry!

And, per usual, our top projects to try at home, and favorite articles from the past week are down at the bottom.

What We’re Reading 📚

Stop Coding Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch.Are you implementing a machine learning algorithm at the moment? Why? Implementing algorithms from scratch is one of the biggest mistakes I see beginners make. (Machine Learning Mastery)

How a co-founder of a startup built an AI chatbot, trained on past messages, for texting with her deceased friend. When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence. (The Verge)

Vim for Humans. A brief overview of the advantages of vim and why it is one of the best investments you can make in your career. (Vim eBook)

WTF is a container? Instead of shipping around a full operating system and your software, you simply pack your code and its dependencies into a container that can then run anywhere. (TechCrunch)

Differentiable neural computers. A memory-augmented neural network can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generated stories, family trees, and even a map of the London Underground. (DeepMind)